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mejin commented on Philadelphia write-in candidate: I won with one vote thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/LeoJiWoo

jccalhoun · 8 years ago

The fact is that before Republicans began pushing for voter id laws in states there were very very few proven cases of voter fraud. So if there wasn't a problem with voter fraud, what was the point of trying to pass the laws?

mejin · 8 years ago

It's probably very hard to prove fraud when no one uses an id

mejin commented on When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work nytimes.com/2017/11/18/bu... · Posted by u/SQL2219

derefr · 8 years ago

Insofar as bankruptcy itself was meant to be an "escape hatch" to avoid designing forgiveness into every element of the system, adding any situation where bankruptcy is impossible seems like it destroys the purpose of having bankruptcy exist in the first place.

I mean, I get the real problem: just-graduated students have no assets, but a lot of debt, so they have no disincentive from declaring bankruptcy. Hard to come up with a solution to that, since—if the just-graduated student had assets—they'd just be able to pay the debt with them.

mejin · 8 years ago

Imo, one solution would be for high schools to encourage students to work for 3 years doing unskilled labor until they make enough money to pay for 3 years of college. Then for the 4th year they can get a part time job in their field and maybe extend their degree one more year. In the end they will be entering the professional workforce a few years later, but that isn't so bad and may help them mature.

mejin commented on Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative airbornos.com/... · Posted by u/twiss

twiss · 8 years ago

In Chrome, if you select the second line, right click -> Writing Direction -> Right to Left, it seems to do what you want. Does that help?

mejin · 8 years ago

Yes, that works. (I can start using this more). As a suggestion maybe you should add the writing direction to the top options. I would not have thought to check the right click menu for anything other than cut/copy/paste, spell check and other less important things.

mejin commented on Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative airbornos.com/... · Posted by u/twiss

twiss · 8 years ago

If you select an RTL interface language, the UI becomes RTL. And in Chrome, you can select RTL in the editor in the context menu. Are you looking for something similar to that in Firefox, or are there any other issues with RTL?

mejin · 8 years ago

What I would like to do it write in both a RTL language and a LTR language: (second line is a translation of the first) Hello, world! שלום, עולם!

However, the exclamation mark in the second line does not come at the end of the sentence.

This is not good: https://image.ibb.co/b5dC7b/Screenshot_20171102_083647.png This is good https://image.ibb.co/kAdjLw/Screenshot_20171102_083825.png

Changing the interface language didn't seem to help: https://image.ibb.co/k2gtDG/Screenshot_20171102_084103.png

mejin commented on Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative airbornos.com/... · Posted by u/twiss

twiss · 8 years ago

Hi HN! I made this. It has bulk import from Google Docs ;) thanks to a feature request from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478479

mejin · 8 years ago

Any intentions on adding support for right to left languages? This is the only reason why I have a Windows 7 virtual machine with Office 13 installed. I am looking for alternatives.

mejin commented on FCC Moves to End TV-Newspaper Ownership Ban bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

coolgeek · 8 years ago

We'll be here waiting

mejin · 8 years ago

I've been a bit busy but here it is. (BTW: is there a way to get HN to notify you when someone comments?) I will be talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8pjd1QEA0c Student Debt.

1:11 Student debt is bad because they will sue you in court. : Well of course they will. Its not like they can take away your car if you stop paying your debt.

3:30 Why did student loans increase so much? States slashed funding for higher institutions causing colleges to increase tuition. : Or maybe because more people are eligible for student loans. Having the government back student loans is linked to the increase in tuition according to this: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...

5:16 Students at for profit schools account for 31% of student loans having just 13% of the students. : Does anyone expect a private company meant for people with few options to be cheeper than ivy league schools that offer on average $40,000 of aid per student? I don't have sources but I would imagine that the 13% most expensive car sales would account for around 31% of car sales.

9:00 Looks at one specific program at itt and says that it has an 8% employment rate and 25% didn't graduate: There is / was (I don't know if it is over yet) a lawsuit against itt and the plaintiff claims that the employment rate was around 50% http://www.ajc.com/news/education/lawsuit-claims-itt-tech-ex... . Also, what do you expect from a college that excepts anyone who can pay? If they graduated everyone than their credibility would be worse than it already is. Any place that accepts anyone will have a low success rate (eg. Hollywood and start ups)

And the most annoying point about his videos is that he doesn't propose a solution. It feels like making a video about how chemo is so bad and painful but then doesn't mention any alternative. In this analogy John Oliver would like to ban or severely limit chemo.

mejin commented on Google no longer lets you change domains to search different countries theverge.com/2017/10/27/1... · Posted by u/lnguyen

mejin · 8 years ago

What's so bad about this is it I'm using someone else's computer in a different country I can rarely stay on the English version. For example, in incognito, even after changing to the English Google, if I go to any other Google site (ex. trends) not only do I get the local language version, but on mobile there is no way to change the language.

mejin commented on How to Read the JFK Assassination Files politico.com/magazine/sto... · Posted by u/wslh

wallace_f · 8 years ago

Hypothetically, if a group of people was willing to go to all the trouble of breaking laws to assassinate a President, what's forcing them to be honorable in producing and releasing information implicating themselves?

It seems any excitement is contingent on believing not just in the conspiracy, but also in extreme incompetence, no?

mejin · 8 years ago

Based on other comments in HN it appears that a large amount of key documents have been "lost". I've never checked the source, but many threads about the files mention that.

mejin commented on Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone aol.com/article/news/2017... · Posted by u/tony101

austincheney · 8 years ago

Better would be to go to a single Zulu timezone nationwide. You just go into work an hour later in the central area compared to the east coast.

mejin · 8 years ago

I like it that no matter where I live I can wake up at 6, stores open by 9, and lunch is at 12. Imagine every time traveling having to ask the locals what time things happen. Also, I don't think any politician will allow their state to be the state that doesn't have the same time as other countries in the same longitude